DLA Europe And Africa News

Category: Troop Support

Air Force Senior Airman Taryn Mendoza, right, prepares a syringe at Misawa Air Base, Japan. DLA Troop Support’s Medical supply chain provides more than 25,000 pharmaceuticals to military healthcare providers around the world. Mendoza is a medical technician with the 35th Medical Operations Squadron.

Sept. 1, 2017

Saving Lives: DLA ensures military gets meds in emergencies

PHILADELPHIA — Lorinda Ferraiolo isn't a doctor or a nurse. But when there was a life-or-death medical emergency at an Air Force base in Japan, she got the urgent message.

Man in civilian attire explaining to Marine in fatigues an item on the computer monitor.

Sept. 1, 2017

DLA Aviation employee finds job satisfaction through deployment

A DLA Aviation employee has volunteered for deployments around the world, from Kosovo to Haiti to Djibouti and more.

Soldier in fatigues secures pallet of water with tie-down strap, facing viewer's half-left.

Sept. 1, 2017

Troop Support provides food, generators for Hurricane Harvey relief

DLA Troop Support is providing food, water, generators and other materials to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Northern Command to support state and local relief to victims of Hurricane Harvey.

Food and fuel like these being transferred during a replenishment at sea on the African coast are among items DLA buys from African businesses to decrease customers’ storage costs and support the local economy.

Sept. 1, 2017

Djibouti First

Fort Belvir, VA — DLA Europe & Africa uses local procurement programs such as Djibouti First to supply troops while also supporting local economies.

Richard Ellis, DLA Troop Support deputy commander (left), and Army Col. Mark Simerly, DLA Troop Support commander, lead the discussion to plot DLA Troop Support's path to improve the organization and collect input for a new DLA strategic plan.

Aug. 30, 2017

DLA Troop Support leaders propose surge flexibility, cross-training during strategic planning session

PHILADELPHIA — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support senior leaders plotted a path to continue to deliver superior warfighter support during a planning session August 24.

C&T gets running start providing new recruits athletic footwear

Aug. 24, 2017

DLA gets running start providing new recruits athletic footwear

PHILADELPHIA — DLA Troop Support's Clothing and Textiles supply chain got a running start to provide athletic footwear to military recruits for the first time by educating potential vendors about doing business with DLA.

Army Col. Mark Simerly, DLA Troop Support commander, addresses participants in the Pathways to Career Excellence program Aug. 17

Aug. 22, 2017

Troop Support commander greets new class of PaCERs

PHILADELPHIA — Army Col. Mark Simerly asked the 137 new participants in the agency’s two-year training program to embrace DLA’s warfighter support mission. “The main reason we are here every day is to support the warfighter,” he said.

Aug. 18, 2017

Eliminating backorders keeps warfighter cooking

PHILADELPHIA — Thanks to the efforts of a group of DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain employees, the number of backorders for military food service equipment and food field equipment items has been hovering near zero for the past several months.

Aug. 8, 2017

DLA director hosts first town hall at Troop Support

PHILADELPHIA — Army Lt. Gen. Darrell Williams , who took charge of DLA June 16, addressed the Troop Support workforce in Philadelphia during a town hall Aug. 2. He hosted the town hall after meeting with each of Troop Support’s five supply chains: Subsistence, Clothing and Textiles, Construction and Equipment, Medical and Industrial Hardware.

A Vision Corps employee assembles cushion pads for an Army combat helmet at the company’s manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania July 26. DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles employees toured production lines, where blind or visually impaired individuals operated machinery or packaged item parts.

Aug. 2, 2017

Clothing & Textiles employees meet blind, visually impaired partners in warfighter support

PHILADELPHIA — Employees with the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles supply chain toured production lines at Vision Corps in Lancaster, Pennsylvania July 26, where blind or visually impaired individuals operate machinery or package item parts for military customers.